Although the Church of St Seiriol has long disappeared from Holyhead’s skyline, some of its stained glass can still be seen in Holyhead.

Holyhead | Stained Glass | Churches

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The name Holyhead in Welsh is Caergybi (the fort of Cybi), and the saint and his church at Holyhead is surely the reason that Holyhead, and Holy Island on which it is found, acquired its sanctity.

Holy Island | St Cybi | Holyhead

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The Irish Ferries catamaran, Dublin Swift, is named after Jonathan Swift, the eighteenth-century dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. But he was not the only Swift to loom large in the history of the crossing from Holyhead to Dublin.

Thomas Swift | Holyhead | English Civil War

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